Benson v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1855
Citation profile
1 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 1960
1 district · 22 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Randall v. Shrader
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The authorities, both English and American, seem generally agreed in the position that an express estate for life given by will, negatives the intention to give the absolute property, and converts words conferring a right of disposition into words of mere power.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Sandlin
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.